Right , instead of resorting to random posts on all them gloryhunting punters thread its time for a thread dedicated to the biggest small club in East London. I reckon we got near half dozen supporters on board so Im sure we have some fun

Feel free to bitch moan worship about anything as long as it has a some what tenous link to the CnB....

Brief History of West Ham

1895 Thames Ironsworks Football Club formed by shipyard owner Arnold Hills as amateur club for his work force***
- first kit oxford blue- wins West Ham charity cup vs Barking, home ground in Canning Town

1896 joins London League, wears royal blue shirt white shorts red socks, evicted from ground, moves to East Ham

1897 moves to Memorial Grounds in Canning Town

1898 turns pro, joins Southern League

1899 Adopt CLaret n Blue kit which happened to be the Ironworks company colours, first kit won as a payment for a bet from an Aston Villa player, kit reported misplaced
....team retains oxford blue, sky blue and white kits for away matches, same kit colour rotation used for away matches today
1900 club 'sold' by Hills, renamed West Ham United Football Club - 2000 shares issued at 'ten bob' each (50p)

1901 Syd King manager one

1904 Moves to Upton Park/East Ham, present location, at one time was the garden of the Boleyn estate

1911 Beat Man Utd in FA Cup

1922 Syd Puttefoot sold for £5000, then world record

1923 FA Cup first appearance 'Whitehorse match' at Wembley.... estimated attendance 200,000 ... the legend of bubbles n all that

1932 Charlie Paynter manger two

1940 War Cup win

1941 Bobby Moore born

1944 Ground hit by German V1

1950 Ted Fenton manager three

1958 Bobby Moore starts his pro career

1961 Ron Greenwood manager four

1964 FA Cup win

1965 ECW Cup win

1966 World Cup win

1967 Bobby Moore awarded OBE

1973 Bobby Moore OBE leaves West Ham for Fulham

1974 John Lyall manager five

1975 FA Cup win ... Bobby Moore OBE meets his old team in the final... last team to win FA cup with all english lineup as were Fulham

1976 ECWC Final WHUFC supporters and Met police battle local authorities after losing to RSC Anderlecht


1980 May - FA Cup win 'Trevor Brooking shoelace goal' ...Willie Young cuts down Paul Allen... last club to win from outside top division

1980 October EWCW 1st rnd match vs Castilla FC played behind closed doors due to

1986 3rd place in League, UEFA cup spot banned due to heysel

1988 Tony Cottee sold to Everton for £2.5million , then British record

1990 Lou Macari manager six

1989 september - Judas Ince, cunt

1990 Lou Macari scandal

1990 Bobby Bonds manager seven

1993 Bobby Moore OBE died due to cancer

1994 Harry Redknapp manager eight

1995 Scupper Man Utds party on last day handing Blackburn the title

1999 Mannygate, vs Villa in the cup... subsequently lose on replay, typical

2000 November - Rio Ferdinand sold for £18 million, then British Record

2001 January - Beat Man Utd in FA cup 4th rnd on the hokey pokey goal

2001 Glenn Roeder manager nine

2003 Alan Pardew manager ten

2006 Alan Curbishley manager eleven

2007 Argiegate

Misc 'facts' about West Ham

- One of first clubs to play under artificial lighting, due in no small part to the team association with the shipyard,
lighting was temporarily installed as required in 1895. The club would not again have home lighting till the 1950s
- there is no ham in West Ham United, its pronounced 'Wess-stam you-nye-id'
-the club is officially in E13'Upton Park' but the boundary has been drawn around the club, on three sides is E6 East Ham
- if you get off at West Ham station you have a long walk, a very long walk, call it East end humour... the closest is
Upton Park but if your going to some of the prematch boozers you might want the East Ham stop
- if they build the new stadium as rumoured then ignore the previous point as West Ham stop will then be the closest, making it and Arsenal the only London teams with stops nearby the ground with same name as team
- Forbes last report (posted march 2007 on 2006 data) rated WHUFC 23rd 'biggest' club in the world, 10th in UK and 9th in England, slightly bigger than Rangers and Aston Villa, slightly smaller than Everton

***According to noted historian Alf Garnet, long before the modern day football Association got started, before the football leagues,
there was football at West Ham , founded by none other than Henry VIII. This was so he would have something to do on saturdays when he was visiting her
at the house he bought her next door to the ground. There seems to be some confusion as to the origin of the shirts because
one instance declared claret to be the choice of Henry favourite drink and the blue blooded arms. An earlier tale tells us that Anne
liked the sky blue kits and they wore those for a while until she had her head lopped off. She was wearing a kit to the block and when henry saw how the blood
flowed all over her torso he said 'Ill have some of that' and had new kits deigned. The squad had a new ball for practice too but it was abit lumpy. By the reign of Elizabeth I the team had won 10 cup finals, which she alluded to in her
speech prior to the engagement versus the Armada. It said she only smiled when hearing news of a West Ham victory.Not much more is recorded and it is assumed that football fell out of favour with Royal house holds
probably around the middle of 1600s and possibly during the rule of Cromwell.

Englands number six ....

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/pre...89520-20313671/

ENGLAND NO.1 IS HAVING A LAUGH

Keeper Robert Green is planning to wear gloves embroidered with "England's No. 6" today in a cheeky protest at his exclusion from the England set-up.
The West Ham keeper was left out of Fabio Capello's first squad last week despite being in stunning form this season for his club. And as a joke with the Hammers fans who constantly chant he is England's No. 1, he is set to unveil them against Birmingham at Upton Park this afternoon.
Green ordered the personalised pair from his glove makers Sells and tested them out in training yesterday to be ready for today's Premier League clash.
A close friend said: "Robert has got a great sense of humour and there has been banter with the West Ham fans all season. They keep chanting England's No. 1 - and he sticks up six fingers to show where he thinks he is in the pecking order. That is No. 6. This is just Robert taking the joke a step further by wearing these gloves. It is really tongue in cheek and not meant to be having a go at anyone. It is not a protest. He is having a laugh at his own expense.

I'm by no means a fan of the Hammers, but I really like what you've done here.

And that's not to say I dislike them...just Lucas Neill.

Remember that upright scissor kick goal DiCanio scored? I still see that goal in all kinds of compilations around the world...

Oh shit! I forgot it was you guys in '95 that cost the Sc*m the title.

...And my esteem for West Ham rises...

yep against the wombles ...I take it you mean this one ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfOlus9Cdw

I took half dozen trips to UK to finally see him score a goal and I got rewarded in his last home match at E13 vs the rentboys , someone posted this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7faS6Wend8k from that match but i cant find that goal

I think this was an even prettier goal, it doesnt touch the ground form time its delivered, Dicanio didnt score it but he did take the corner, joe cole worked it over to sinclair and then blammo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoKsQ88J8C0

http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=123014

Take what you want from it. I don't really follow the elections but its funny to see how many famous fans are out there.

Craig Bellamy is fuking awsome, that is all.

Also, has Ashton pretty much taken over the #1 spot (I know Bellamy is hurt, but he seemed to be getting bumped out by Ashton anyhow?)

I saw their recent match on tv, and I don't think Hammers fans are too impressed with Ashton (he does seem to waste a lot of chances). Bellamy will probably get a run in the side when he's fit, but when will that be now? October?

October, maybe if we're lucky...

I've just been dreaming of a Bellamy - Ashton striker partnership. With the speed, strength, and skill available, they would be brilliant.

At the beginning of the season, fans were all about Ashton. When he made his return and scored his first goal everyone went nuts. Now a days people are saying he's out of shape (although a lot of people said that about Tevez...) and that he's lost his form. He's just in a slump and needs to get himself a 'Slump Buster'

WTF.

i am truly a masochist.

we better get 3 from Team USA this weekend.



BTW OntarioIron, i got setanta to watch all the games - AMAZING! (and changed my name from nocash)

just found this thread. i don't know how i didn't see it earlier, but i adopted the hammers as my club about 3 years ago. one of my friends from work turned me onto them and now with setanta, i don't miss a match.

I was sort of born to a West Ham supporter , never had much choice .... :D
Pic early 1975 right around time saw my first match.... handsome young fellow aint he.... :lol: the only kit I lost that I wish i still had, look good under glass

Meanwhile, former Hammer Paolo Di Canio said he would like to manage the London club. (Telegraph)

this is from the bbc gossip column today

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/g...ers/7252054.stm

Well, it wasn't pretty this morning at all. Fulham got a little too close at times, but Green was good when he had to be and lucky at others. Cole needs to finish some of those chances .... the header he got away off of Freddy's cross should have gone in.

Stalteri looked more than decent at right back for Fulham. If he sticks with them it's too bad they're going down ...

agreed. we haven't looked good for a few games now. i thought Faubert would make more of an impact. hopefuly he's still getting settled and there's better to come.

On this day fifteen years ago, the world lost one of footballs finest.

RIP Bobby Moore

I enjoyed the minute of celebration before the match. i thought it was more appropriate than a moment of silence. pretty special guy, he was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJo0umgTvX4

"Bobby Moore was the essence of West Ham United. A local boy made good who walked with the best on a global stage but always in a down to earth manner that never belied his roots. His is the standard by which all others are judged."

another 4-0 defeat. i'm starting to get a little worried. i didn't watch the match against liverpool because i'm studying for an exam. anybody want to fill me in on what the hell happened? :wacko:

let's just say Robert Green is no match for the magnificent Fernando Torres.

"Well thats West Ham innit..."

Fear not, such is the essence of west ham, you dont expect consistency do you?. Rarely a season goes by without some good guttings, especially when noones backs up against the wall. West Ham havent won at Anfield since the early sixties, usually they roll over and play dead hoping not to pick up an injury, and as they did beat them at UP so Im not concerned . The team is relatively safe, a european spot seems quite unlikely, no cups to play for, times like these a good relegation battle make things a bit more interesting....

Didn't the commentators say last week that Robert Green had a special pair of gloves made up that said " England No.6 " ? :lol:

it wasn't green's fault. my granny could have scored if left wide open 3 yards from the goal.

it was a poor performance all around. really missing an attacking mid and a QUALITY striker.

i hope to see belamy paired with someone new for next year. with ashton and zamora for cover. and someone who can set them up.

oh, and ferdinand OUT!


















BTW nice strike by gerrard.

I saw that.:lol: It was an amazing goal, Gerrard doing what he does best.

yeah true it wasn't Greens fault, but Torres had Green standing still on two occasions (first goal and diving header where he hit the post and out, that would've been a beauty). I think Green is an excellent keeper, but the defending left him with LITTLE chance, due to the quality of Torres.

This has completely cheered up my week after that hat-trick of 4-0 defeats.

http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/342589

Heres a rumour for you...this summer... Curbs out ... Bilic in.....

i like curbs. but if he cant get them together there will be change. bilic? sure why not. but after Euro i suppose.


btw Irons, before i buy tickets to the all star game, is this confirmed?

i might have a couple of extra tickets for the all star game kicking around.

Not confirmed by any means, just a bunch of blogs and rumours apparently leading back to ESPN.
Still if you can get your hands on tickets now you winner either way. I just wouldn't book plane tickets just yet if I'm from out of town.

One Freddie Sears.. there's only one Freddie Sears....

i got chills when i saw him score today......awesome.

ya, that was great! you could see the mood at the grounds change when he came on. sheer anticipation.


nice touch from deeno too. hopefuly this gets us going again.

WHAT A FUCKING JOKE!

5 min's of extra time with no goals and 1 injury? fine. So WHY LET IT GO FOR 7 ?!?!

it took a few more stongbows last night. :D

WATCH OUT EUROPE, HERE COME THE HAMMERS!!!



























in 2011. :ph43r:

ljungburg out with broken rib after defender steps on him.

did anyone see it when he lifted his shirt? already black and bloody? painful. went straight to hospital.

Was just talking to lad in London, apparently Paolo was at the last match , complete with 6 minders.....

apparently singing as well

when ljungburg was down and having traetment the WHOLE of UP was singing opera.

saw the new West Ham away kit on Who Ate All The Pies




the front looks great, the back looks like a tribal tattoo